The Bucket List

Last year had been a complete freak show. Well, don't we reiterate that every year. I am yet to come to terms with the fact that 2014 has ended....well almost. Time to prepare by bucket list for 2015 already! Blaady......what about 2014 list. Ignorance is bliss my friend.

Its not that I did not gain anything this year. I did gain few things, like extra pounds (not the currency), grey hair (!@#$), Few more friends on Facebook, who are probably blocked by now, over-time pay at work and, 400 levels in Candy Crush.

Anyways, this time, I really do want to introspect and prepare a bucket list for myself. Sorry, it does not include the 'Ice Bucket Challenge'.
As procrastination is my middle name, the list might serve for 2016 as well. Does not really matter actually, until there is a list in black and white.

#1 Topnotch priority is, visit to the Spiti Valley and Kufri in Himachal Pradesh, along with munching on fresh      apples straight from the grooves in Manali.

#2 Sale or no sale, have money, will buy that Guess handbag.

#3 Will write atleast a blog a month.

#4 Snorkeling in the Andamans.

#5 Abs like Deepika. Okay, we might omit this one.

#6 Will read a book every month.

#7 Personal Website.

#8 Work for a different firm.

#9 Buy my own car

#10 Goa to banta hai ek baar!

*Conditions Apply

*The above list is editable at author's whim and fancy. The author is not responsible if the leaves don't get approved and inflation scores another level.

No,Seriously!

English is a phunny language

Would you rather say the insufferably bland “He collided with my trunk” or the insanely awesome “He banged my dickey”?

Funnier lines that mark our Indianness: "I DO music". "Lets DO the dance"."Close the lights"."Cut the pencil". "Seriously funny". "Fully Empty". "Hairs are falling" and so and so on and so forth. The major credit goes to... "Please DO the needful". One fine day, it just slips out and the listener at the other end corrects us unabashedly. The feeling of having been wrong all our lives. How long have I been saying that? Who is he again, to correct me? 

I passed out from college, and I passed out in college too. I gave many classes a pass and passed many classes too.

Well, as quoted by Sri Amitabh Bachan: "English is a phunny language".It gets funnier as you traverse across different states of India. A "Zimbly Owesome " for "Simply Awesome" in Kerala. "Part" becomes "fart" in Karnataka. "You" is "Ewww" in Bihar. In Andhra, a "Biscuit" can be "Biscuitaaan". In Bengal, everything sounds like Roshogolla, like "Shobway" for "Subway". "Tart" for "Start" in Odisha. "Binness" for "Business" in Punjab.

Languages change over time. Healthy, living languages change a lot over time. They ebb and flow and morph and transmogrify. If we want to smirk at someone asking us for our “good name”, laugh at someone telling us sheepishly that “sleep is coming” and wallow in the pedantic preference for “years ago” over “years back”, we are just being insufferable douchebags. When William Blake rhymes “Aye” with “symmetry”, it’s acceptable because it’s um..William Blake and not some poor bloke with vernacular language medium education from a small town in India? How many conventions of grammar do you think Shakespeare broke when writing Hamlet? Or is poetic license not allowed for unlicensed poets?

Hence, if the English language has evolved to the likes of  STFU, WTF, WTH, PHAT, BFF, LOL, LMAO, ROFL, ROFLMAO, and many more from the Gen XYZ's social network dictionary, we can as well spare the mother tongue influenced diction.

On that note...TTYL..... XOXO  :)